We see a few problems with the Browns hiring Adam Gase, Denver’s offensive coordinator, as the next head coach.

• He would be a first-time head coach, a breed prone to especially sharp growing pains.

• At 35, he would be the youngest head coach in the NFL, by a lot. The youngest at the moment is Pittsburgh’s Mike Tomlin, 41.

• Whereas Tomlin was 34 when he was hired, he entered into a culture of winning and stability. The Steelers had won a Super Bowl less than a year before he was hired and had been piloted by one man, Bill Cowher, for 15 years. The Browns haven’t been quite like that.

• Gase is enjoying a good ride since Peyton Manning joined the Broncos, but he never coached on a winning NFL team prior to Manning. The records of his teams before Manning were (with the Lions) 5-11, 6-10, 5-11, 3-13, 7-9, (with the 49ers) 7-9, (with Denver) 8-8, 4-12 and 8-8.

• In addition to lacking the experience that expands options in hiring a staff, time would be an issue. Available assistant coaches do not want to wait until February to figure out where the might have a job this year,

• If Manning gets the Broncos to the Super Bowl, Gase could not be hired until the night of the game, Sunday Feb. 2.

Coaches are rarely hired that late. Among current NFL head coaches, none was hired later than Jan. 27.

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Here are the dates current (or in a few cases recently fired) head coaches were hired: